Create something right now! 2 comments
Think of one creative gift you have or would like to develop. It can be anything from writing, to dancing, to baking, to singing. Make […]
Yearly Archives: 2014
Can you write a story without a sense of place? 1 comment
Do all stories need a sense of place? The short answer is “no”. (There’s rarely a condition that applies to all stories, except perhaps the […]
How to Turbocharge Your Rewrite 5 comments
Take your [favorite] thing you’ve written. Look at the first draft. List every change that turned A into B. Make that your rewrite checklist. — […]
David Hare: How to make your scenes feel more real 3 comments
Image: Ralph Richardson and Michèle Morgan as Baines and Julie in ‘The Fallen Idol’ (1948) What is “verisimilitude”? Verisimilitude means “seeming real or life-like”; it […]
Projecting emotions 7 comments
John Thornton Williams explains a better way to “show don’t tell” how your characters are feeling: through indirection of image, or projecting their emotions onto […]
The challenges of writing diverse characters 7 comments
A major challenge of writing diverse characters is the burden of representation.
How Gillian Flynn adapted her novel "Gone Girl" into her first screenplay
“It was a fun, masochistic challenge to look at this 500-page book [Gone Girl: A Novel], and say, ‘Well, I’m going to have to lose […]
The story gets to be what the story wants to be
The story gets to be what the story wants to be–meaning, if I’m struggling with a story, it quite likely could be that I’m trying […]
